If you keep a list of words you’ve looked up while reading a particular piece of Latin literature, do you do any reviews of that list and how?
In my case I have lists but find that often I still have to look up the same word more than once. I’m not good at memorizing words off of lists so I’m thinking of taking the words in my lists and making sentences out of them and then reviewing those.
I’m just curious what others on this forum to try to remember the words they had to look up while reading.
In making lists of words that I look up I find it’s worth keeping them in the order in which they occur in the text that I’m reading. (Perhaps everyone does this.) That way it’s easier to recall their context and usage when looking through the lists subsequently.
If you make up your own sentences with them there’s the risk of the sentences not being good ones. But substitution exercises can be very valuable if done well.
Everyone learns differently, but I find it’s easier to retain vocabulary if I use spaced repetition. SR has the advantage of helping you focus on what you don’t know, rather than spending time on things you do know, thereby freeing up more time for you to read or learn more vocabulary or whatever. I personally use Anki – there’s lots of information on the website.
If you find you need contextual reinforcement, you can easily use fill-in-the-blank sentences to quiz yourself, or add sentences to Latin-English cards as hints or cues.